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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

MacGregor. You know, it is a Scotch name.

MacGregor, do you hear, Doctor? Mac. Mac. Not Mach. Do you understand?

[Still doubtful]

Of course. But why, Madam, wasn’t her son’s name also MacGregor?

Well, because of his mother—Ferdi never knew his own mother.

Ah, is that so? [Coming closer to her] And have you any proof of this?

I’m not sure. Please go on.

Well, from that time the Loukov case has been going on, with some intervals, up to the present date. It has been carried on continuously for a hundred years between generations of the Pruses and the Gregors and with the excellent legal assistance of the Doctors Kolonaty. Thanks to their help, the last of the Gregors will lose it for good. Oddly enough, this very afternoon. So—that is all.